Objectives of management

Correct answer: A. Personal objective and productivity benefit

Direct answer: A, personal objective and productivity benefit. Skill training and health facilities directly concern employees, so they are part of personal or employee objectives. The question also asks for the organisational benefit. Step by step: training improves knowledge and work ability; health facilities support employee well-being and attendance; healthier, more capable employees can work better; productivity rises; the organisation may obtain better output and efficiency. Option A correctly states both the primary objective and its benefit. Option B is wrong because employee facilities are not a social objective in the sense given, and tax evasion is illegal and unrelated. Option C is wrong because the main objective is not growth, and employee fear is not a desirable benefit. Option D is wrong because life protection and wrong information do not describe skill and health support. Remember: employee welfare may create organisational gains through motivation, health and productivity.

Correct answer: A. Social objective

Not checking safety certificates goes against customer interest. Social objective requires real safety not just a claim.

Correct answer: A. Social objective and community interest

The governing concept is that an organisation must pursue social objectives along with survival, profit, and growth. Public protest usually signals that people believe the organisation has harmed or ignored community interests, perhaps through pollution, unsafe products, unfair practices, displacement, or lack of consultation. If management focuses only on expansion and financial results, it may lose social acceptance. Protest can delay projects, increase costs, damage reputation, and prevent further growth. Therefore option A is correct: the likely neglected area is the social objective and the welfare of the community. Employee promotion, office decoration, and personal leave may matter in other contexts, but they do not logically explain public opposition stopping organisational growth.

Correct answer: C. Adulteration strengthens social objectives

Option C is correct. Social objectives include providing consumers with safe, good-quality products and protecting their interests. Adulteration reduces product quality and may harm consumer health and welfare; therefore, it weakens rather than strengthens social objectives. In contrast, paying taxes supports social responsibility, and profit is necessary for an organisation's survival. Exam tip: An activity that harms consumer welfare cannot support a social objective.

Correct answer: A. Neglect of personal objective affected social and organisational objectives

Training is employee development and service quality is customer interest. Fewer customers also affect organisational objective.

Correct answer: A. Company is operating but earning less than cost

Operating indicates survival but earning below cost shows lack of profit. Identify sub parts of organisational objective separately.

Correct answer: A. Social objective

Local employment and fair supplier treatment relate to community interest. This is a wider form of social objective.

Correct answer: A. Participation and respect

Giving suggestions relates to participation and respect. Employee voice strengthens personal objective.

Correct answer: A. Social objective was prioritised

Giving a correct product warning protects consumers’ safety, health and interests. Doing so despite lower profit shows that the organisation has placed its social objective above its profit objective. Lower profit does not mean that the profit objective has ended, while personal objectives relate to employees’ needs and aspirations. Exam tip: Link consumer safety, honest information and environmental protection with social objectives.

Correct answer: D. Both assertion and reason are false

The governing concept is balance among management objectives, which means harmonising competing interests through appropriate priorities, not distributing exactly equal money, time, or attention to every objective. Different situations require different responses: a safety emergency may require greater immediate attention to consumers, while a skill shortage may require greater attention to employees. Therefore the assertion is false. The reason is also false because stakeholder needs vary with circumstances, resources, risks, and time; they are not identical in every situation. Balance means a reasonable and fair adjustment that supports overall organisational effectiveness. Hence option D is correct, while options A, B, and C each incorrectly treat at least one false statement as true.

Correct answer: A. Pollution case reduces brand reputation and sales fall

The governing concept is the effect of social responsibility on organisational performance over time. Pollution represents failure to protect the environment and community, which is a social objective. A pollution case can trigger public criticism, regulatory penalties, consumer distrust, negative media coverage, and boycotts. These effects may weaken brand reputation and reduce sales, clearly showing a long-term organisational consequence. Therefore option A is correct. Training an employee is generally a development activity, correct tax payment is responsible compliance rather than an adverse consequence, and a safe product increasing trust is an example of fulfilling social responsibility. Those choices do not demonstrate the harmful organisational result asked for in the question.

Correct answer: A. Personal objective is fulfilled and social objective is weak

Providing employees with development opportunities fulfils the personal objective of management because it supports their growth and satisfaction. However, deceiving customers in service goes against the social objective, which requires fair business conduct and protection of customer interests. Option B reverses these two objectives. Exam tip: Link personal objectives with employees and social objectives with customers and society.

Correct answer: A. Company provides pollution control and local employment while setting up a new plant

Pollution control and local employment take society along. This can give long term acceptance to growth.

Correct answer: A. Conflict between profit objective and personal objective

Profit is organisational objective and employee safety is personal objective. Unsafe overtime disturbs balance.

Correct answer: A. Social objective supports survival and profit

Correct measurement is customer interest and repeat purchase sustains the organisation. Social responsibility can give organisational benefit.

Correct answer: B. Looking at stakeholder impact ethics and long term result

In difficult cases more than one objective may be involved. Stakeholders and long term balance lead to the correct answer.

Correct answer: A. Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation

Personal objectives relate to many employee needs. The reason correctly explains this wider meaning.

Correct answer: B. Social objective supporting survival and profit

Complaint solution is customer interest and repeat purchase sustains the organisation. Social objective can also give organisational benefit.

Correct answer: A. Growth and social objective

Expansion is growth and community interest is social objective. Growth should be balanced with social acceptance.

Correct answer: B. Fair growth and recognition

Learning is useful but fair recognition is also needed. Favouritism weakens personal objective.

Correct answer: A. Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation

The scope of social objective is wider than donation. Customer safety and correct information are key parts of it.

Correct answer: A. Long term survival

Direct answer: Option A is correct. Survival means the organisation can continue operating in the future, even when risks, competition or unexpected expenses arise. Profit is not useful only for immediate distribution; some of it can strengthen reserves, replace assets, manage emergencies and support future operations. Here the organisation earns profit but keeps no reserve. Thus, one important support for long-term survival is weak. Option A is correct because risk preparation and financial reserves are directly related to long-term survival. Option B is wrong because employee respect concerns human treatment, not mainly financial preparation for risk. Option C is wrong because community service concerns society and is not the direct issue here. Option D is not a standard organisational objective and has no connection with reserves. The conclusion says survival may become weak, not that failure is certain. Memory cue: profit today plus preparation for tomorrow supports survival.

Correct answer: A. Social objective is visible but personal objective is incomplete

Direct answer: Option A is correct. Management studies commonly discuss organisational, personal and social objectives. Clean production reduces pollution, protects the environment and benefits the wider community, so it shows a social objective. Employee safety training protects workers and helps their welfare, confidence and development. Since the company gives no such training, the personal objective related to employees is incomplete, even though the social objective is visible. Option A correctly identifies both sides. Option B is wrong because one environmental or social action cannot prove that all objectives are achieved. Option C is wrong because training is directly related to employee welfare, safety and development. Option D is wrong because clean production cannot remove the need for safe working methods; a clean process may still contain machinery or workplace risks. The two objectives must be assessed separately. Memory cue: clean environment means social welfare; safe, developed employees mean personal welfare.

Correct answer: B. Social objective

Removing risk warnings can prevent consumers from receiving proper information about possible product hazards and may endanger their safety. Hence, the social objective is affected first, as it includes consumer welfare, safety and responsibility towards society. A growth objective concerns increasing sales or expansion, but the immediate issue created by removing warnings is social responsibility. Exam tip: Consumer safety, correct product information and environmental protection usually point to social objectives.

Correct answer: D. Both assertion and reason are false

Social responsibility can increase trust and reputation. Therefore profit and social objective can go together.